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Experimenta nova (ut vocantur) Magdeburgica de vacuo spatio, primùm à r. p. Gaspare Schotto ... nunc verò ab ipso auctore perfectiùs edita, variisque aliis experimentis aucta. Quibus accesserunt simul certa quaedam de aëris pondere circa terram; de virtutibus mundanis, & systemate mundi planetario; sicut & de stellis fixis, ac spatio illo immenso, quod tàm intra quam extra eas funditur / [Otto von Guericke].

Athanasius Kircher being guided by an archangel to the celestial spheres. Engraving by J.F. Fleischberger, 1660.

P. Gasparis Schotti ... Technica curiosa, sive mirabilia artis libri XII comprehensa .... / [Gaspar Schott].

Physica curiosa, sive mirabilia naturae et artis libris XII. comprehensa. Quibus pleraque, quae de angelis, daemonibus, hominibus ... rara, arcana, curiosaque circumferuntur, ad veritatis trutinam expenduntur ... / [Gaspar Schott].

P. Gasparis Schotti ... Physica curiosa : sive mirabilia naturae et artis libris XII. comprehensa, quibus pleraque, quae de angelis, daemonibus, hominibus, spectris, energumensis, monstris, portentis, animalibus, meteoris, &c. rara, arcana, curiosaq́; circumferuntur, ad veritatis trutinam expenduntur, variis ex historia ac philosophia petitis disquisitionibus excutiuntur, & innumeris exemplis illustrantur. Cum figuris aeri incisis.

P. Gasparis Schotti Mechanica hydraulico-pnevmatica : qua præterquàm quòd aquei elementi natura, proprietas, vis motrix, atque occultus cum aëre conflictus, à primis, fundamentis demonstratur; omnis quoque generis experimenta hydraulico-pnevmatica recluduntur; & absoluta machinarum aquâ & aëre animandrarum ratio ac methodus præscribitur. Opus bipartitum ... Accessit experimentum novum Magdeburgicum, quo vacuum alij stabilire, alij evertere conantur.

Magia universalis naturæ et artis ; sive recondita naturalium & artificialium rerum scientia, cujus ope per variam applicationem ... / P. Gasparis Schotti.

Speculum mundi: or, an exact account of the great and formidable eclipse of the sun, which will be visible, total, and central, in England, May 11, 1724 ... / [Anon].

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Schott, Gaspar, 1608-1666

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Magia universalis naturæ et artis ; sive recondita naturalium & artificialium rerum scientia, cujus ope per variam applicationem ... / P. Gasparis Schotti.

Physica curiosa, sive mirabilia naturae et artis libris XII. comprehensa. Quibus pleraque, quae de angelis, daemonibus, hominibus ... rara, arcana, curiosaque circumferuntur, ad veritatis trutinam expenduntur ... / [Gaspar Schott].

Speculum mundi: or, an exact account of the great and formidable eclipse of the sun, which will be visible, total, and central, in England, May 11, 1724 ... / [Anon].